Meet Dr. Alan Villavicencio, MD

Dr. Villavicencio graduated with honors from Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA in 1995, and went on to complete a neurosurgical residency at the renowned Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC in 2001. He then went on to do a specialty orthopedic spine surgery fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA in 2002 and is one of only a handful of surgeons in the country with dual neurosurgery and orthopedic spine training.

Dr. Villavicencio At a Glance:

Dually trained in both neurosurgery and orthopedic spine surgery

Specializes in minimally invasive surgery

Performs complex spinal reconstruction surgery

Published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in leading journals and textbooks

Presented hundreds of abstracts at national and international neurosurgical meetings

Has been the principle investigator on many FDA and Non-FDA clinical studies and trials

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